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Rob Halliday Waxes Lyrical on Madame Tussaud’s, New York revamped the London show while at the same time moving into other areas of Mirror entertainment. It now owns Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures and a themed attraction at Warwick Castle, and manages the London Eye. The first surprise: discovering Most recently, new exhibitions have opened in that the building on the Image Las Vegas and Hong Kong. Marylebone Road in London, familiar from childhood On November 15th, these were joined by trips, is actually part of a multi-million learnt wax-modelling from her mother’s Tussaud’s New York. The new, 85,000sq.ft pound entertainment empire that now employer, Philippe Curtius, she later found museum is located on 42nd Street, west of spans the globe. herself imprisoned with the future Empress Broadway, right at the heart of Mayor Josephine in 1793, a contact that allowed her Giuliani’s plan to revitalise Times Square and, The second surprise: discovering that the to model Napoleon after the revolution. from there, the city as a whole. This block is waxwork figures of the great, the good and Tussaud inherited Curtius’ wax exhibition in effectively one massive construction site, mere celebrities, vaguely remembered from 1794; she took her show on tour in the UK in cinemas and shops all at various stage of those same childhood trips and gently derided 1802, and established a permanent base in completion. Tussaud’s light, airy foyer offers in the years since, are not only brilliantly Baker Street in 1835. Tussaud herself died in immediate respite from the chaos outside, executed works of art, but are also completely 1850, but her grandsons moved the show to its with Whoopi Goldberg present to greet fascinating to be around.
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